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Holding the Eugene McDermott Master Teaching Chair in Science, John Mead joined the St. Mark’s faculty in the fall of 1990. He earned his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Duke University, where he maintains a fierce loyalty to the Blue Devils’ basketball team. Having previously served as the sixth grade class sponsor and assistant head of Middle School, Mead now teaches sections of life science to sixth graders. Since the 1990’s, Mead has been one of the leaders of the School’s Wilderness Program, guiding Marksmen through the outdoors on dozens of Middle School campouts and Pecos Wilderness Trips. Mead has also traveled across the globe with scientific research teams from Peru’s Boiling River to the Rising Star Cave in South Africa. Through his friendship with world-renown paleoanthropologist Dr. Lee Berger, Mead has facilitated in-person visits and live video calls with the research team excavating fossils of the early hominin homo naledi in Africa. He has earned recognition from the National Association of Biology Teachers, including the Outstanding Biology Teacher Award for the state in 2018 and the Evolution Education Award in 2019.

After 15 years at Ursuline Academy of Dallas, where he taught earth science, chemistry and physics, Dr. Jonathan Moody arrived at St. Mark’s as a chemistry teacher in 2021. Moody coaches Middle School cross-country and track & field, is a freshman adviser and participated as a group leader in the Wilderness Program. He earned his B.S. from Texas A&M University and Ph.D. from UT Southwestern Medical Center. Moody has twice received the Work of Heart award from the Catholic Foundation of Dallas, was named a Regional Coach of the Year in 2021 by the Positive Coaching Alliance and was named the 2017 Texas Cross-Country Coach of the Year by the Lone Star Christian Sports Network.